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1st International Workshop
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ITAB 2009, November 5-7, 2009, Larnaca, Cyprus
Errors in healthcare are recognized causes of adverse events threatening patient safety. Recent studies are alerting on the number, the magnitude and the consequences of such errors, and have raised patient safety to the top of the healthcare agenda worldwide. Information technology is increasingly becoming the number one weapon against avoidable adverse healthcare events by providing essential tools for the monitoring of healthcare processes, and for the automatic reporting, analysis and prevention of healthcare errors.
The International Workshop on Information Technology for Patient Safety, held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine ITAB 2009, is envisaged as a compilation of the latest trends and developments in the field of information technology for patient safety.
The workshop aims to enable interaction and knowledge exchange with researchers actively involved in this field. It is organized in the framework of the project DEBUGIT (Detecting and Eliminating Bacteria UsinG Information Technologies), which focuses on building information technology tools that should have significant impacts for the monitoring and control of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistances in Europe. DEBUGIT is funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme, ICTs for Health (contract no. 217139).
The workshop will be open to all the participants of the ITAB 2009 conference and will include only peer reviewed papers. Selected papers of the conference (including those of the proposed workshop) will be invited to various special issues, including a special issue on the IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in Biomedicine. High quality contributions on patient safety issues from the fields of medical informatics, biomedical engineering and bioinformatics are welcome. Specific topics may include, without being limited to, the following:
- Standardization and interoperability in healthcare
- Clinical information systems
- Ontologies
- Data mining and knowledge discovery
- Pattern recognition
- Signal/image processing and analysis
- Artificial intelligence
- Expert and decision support systems
Paper submission
Prospective authors are invited to
submit papers of no more
than four (4) pages in IEEE
format including results, figures and references. Paper submission and registration will be handled
by the conference
management system of the ITAB
conference. All accepted papers will be included
in the proceedings
of ITAB 2009 to be published
by the IEEE.
At least one author of
each accepted paper is expected
to attend the workshop for
presentation.
Steps for paper submission:
- Use
the Word template provided here
- Goto https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=itab2009
- Select
track: International Workshop on Information Technology for Patient Safety
(ITPS 2009)
Important Dates
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July 10, 2009 |
Paper submission
(extended) |
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Notification of acceptance |
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Camera-ready submission
and author registration (please follow the instructions provided
in http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/itab2009/) |
Workshop organizer
Dr. Dimitris K. Iakovidis
Department of Informatics & Computer Technology
Technological Educational
Scientific committee (in alphabetical order)
Martin Boeker,
Dirk Colaert,
Stavros
Karkanis, Technological Educational
Institute of
Christian Lovis, University
Patrick Ruch, University of Applied Sciences,